Keeping Score at Golf
Scoring is another great thing about golf. You can easily see how you're doing because your score is in black and white on the scorecard. Every course you play has a scorecard. The scorecard tells you [more…]
Avoiding Common Short Game Misfires
Hitting the ball from the tee is easy compared to the short game. Heck, the ball sits up on a tee, you hit it with the same club most every time, and you can swing away and hit it as far as you want. The [more…]
How to Know Which Golf Club to Use
To figure out which golf club to use for a particular shot, you need to know the average distance you hit a ball with each golf club in your set. Then, you simply choose the golf club that fits the distance [more…]
How to Find Golf Lessons
Golf lessons are usually available wherever balls are hit and golf is played: driving ranges, public courses, resorts, and private clubs. The price for these lessons typically increases in that same order [more…]
How to Get Yourself Fit for Golf
To play golf well, you need a certain level of physical fitness (despite what some critics might say). To get fit so that you can effectively play golf, you need to work [more…]
How to Use the Standing Balance-Sway Fitness Test
Balance is an important physical characteristic for an optimal and consistent golf swing. The purpose of the standing balance-sway test is to help you identify muscle and connective tissue tightness that [more…]
How to Find the Right Golf Clubs for You
All golfers need to use the right equipment for their body types and physical conditions, including golf clubs that fit their needs. For instance, many manufacturers of golf clubs specialize in creating [more…]
How to Use the Club-Behind-the-Spine Fitness Test
The club-behind-the-spine test is a very helpful evaluation tool for evaluating your golf-related physical fitness. One important purpose of this test is to determine your ability to achieve and maintain [more…]
How to Perform Golf Posture Exercises
If you’re unable to achieve a straight-spine golf stance (in other words, if your golf posture is terrible), you may find the next three simple exercises can improve your posture at address. [more…]
How to Perform a Trunk-Rotation Stretch
The supine trunk-rotation stretch is a good releasing exercise to help improve your ability to complete a stress-free backswing and follow-through in golf. If you have limitations in your spine rotation [more…]
How to Use the Seated Hip-Rotation Test
The seated hip-rotation test is designed to measure the relative degree of rotation flexibility in your hips. This test can identify whether you have significant tightness in one or both hips that may [more…]
How to Perform a Hip-Rotation Stretch
The supine hip-rotation stretch is a safe and effective exercise to help you reduce hip-rotation tightness and, therefore, improve your ability to make a full turn around your hips during a full golf swing [more…]
How to Find a Place to Play Golf
Golf is played in three places: at public facilities, at private clubs, and on resort courses. Some courses have only 9 holes, while a few resorts offer half a dozen 18-hole courses, or even more. You [more…]
How to Generate Power in Your Golf Swing
When you hit your golf ball, you want it to really travel, right? So, you need to generate some power in your shot. This power comes from a combination of the body twisting around a slightly moving pivot [more…]
How to Construct an Effective Golf Swing
Many people think that the most effective way to develop a consistent golf swing is to stand on the range whacking balls until you get it right. But the best way to develop a consistent golf swing is to [more…]
How to Use a Golf Waggle and Swing Trigger
Good rhythm doesn’t just happen. You need to set the tone for your swing with your waggle. A waggle is a motion with the wrists in which the hands stay pretty much steady over the ball and the clubhead [more…]
Types of Golf Putters
Because putting is such a crucial part of the game, your putter is the most important weapon you have. Club makers seem to have noticed: They’ve brought out a dizzying array of options. [more…]
How to Find the Correct Golf Putting Grip
Not all putting grips are the same — not even the ones for which you place your right hand below the left in conventional fashion. But what all putting grips have in common is that the palms of both hands [more…]
How to Adopt the Correct Golf Putting Posture
While you crouch over the golf ball to putt, you need to be in the correct position. You should have a slight knee flex in your putting stance. If your knees are locked, you’re straining your back too [more…]
How to Use Plumb-Bobbing in Golf
Plumb-bobbing is all about determining where vertical is so that you can see how much break a putt will have. Plumb-bobbing shows the general slope of the green from your ball to the hole. [more…]
How to Chip a Shot in Golf
In golf, chips are short shots played around the greens with any golf club from a 5-iron to a sand wedge. The basic idea is to get the ball on the green and rolling as soon as you can. If you get the ball [more…]
How to Use a Pitch Shot in Golf
Pitch shots in golf, which you play with only your wedges and 9-iron, require some wrist action. So, when you make a pitch shot, you need to figure out how long your swing should be and how fast. [more…]
How to Hit a Golf Ball Out of a Bunker
If your last golf shot took your ball into a bunker (a golf course hazard filled with sand, also called a sand trap), don't worry — you can get that ball out of the bunker and onto the putting surface. [more…]
